Festival Memorial for Great Master Keido Chisan.
Great Master Keido Chisan (Koho Zenji), was Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett’s Transmission master in Japan. He was the Chief Abbot of Daihonzan Soji-ji, one of the two head temples and training monasteries of the Soto Zen Church in Japan. He had become Chief Abbot of Soji-ji as well as Archbishop of the Kanto Plains in 1947, and received the honor and the title Daikyosei (Great Teacher) from the Emperor of Japan in 1948. During the next 12 years he made two tours of the West. Rev. Master Jiyu became his personal disciple in 1962, after he invited her to come to Japan to study with him. She received the Dharma Transmission from him on May 28, 1963 and later received a Sei degree (roughly equivalent to a Doctor of Divinity) from Soji-ji. While he was still Abbot of Soji-ji, Koho Zenji died on November 1, 1967.
